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...Dominican convent. They adopt a baby girl. As the foundling sings from the cradle to womanhood, the nuns feel themselves, by her presence, just a little nearer to the throbbing joys of their dreaming. One day, the girl marries a young man and goes away. There is very little plot, even less action. But the play catches the very essence of sorrow?the passing of years, the frustration of desire, the ignorance of a paradise of Nirvana. For such a delicate symphony, the gentleness of Beatrice Terry as Prioress and the raspiness of Ruth Wilton as the disciplinary Sister Sagrario...
...hearing of this malevolently planned and accurately executed plot from some of his Princeton acquaintances George Braden was so outraged that he changed his allegiance from Princeton to Harvard...
...site of the new Chemistry Laboratory on Oxford Street will be ready for the mason's hand in two weeks, it was learned yesterday through the contractors who are at present engaged in excavating the plot for the foundations. The laboratory, or more properly the new Chemistry Group, will consist of two buildings connected by a tunnel. The first and larger of these is to go up on Oxford Street between the New Lecture Hall and the University Museum, while the second will be immediately behind it on Frisbie Place...
Ghosts. Ibsen's tragedy employing a pathological mishap as symbol of the hideous immorality that easily hides beneath "respectability," is familiar to Broadway. Last year it was done, and the year before and. . . . The plot is taken up with the attempt to build an orphan asylum in honor of Chamberlain Alving, deceased, the while his son's brain softens from inherited syphilis. As a play it is remarkable less for its profundity than for the technical mastery with which it swells through a gorgeous crescendo to a thunderclap climax. Interpretation of the Mrs. Alving's role...
...Bonnie is the usual musical comedy unusually well done. Its best features: the acting of Dorothy Burgess who strives seriously to smile success through this her first musical comedy role; an excellently trained chorus; the song " 'Cross the River from Queens." The plot: a Dry millionaire soap manufacturer, arrested in a night club, switches to the Wets after a month in jail, with such success that he is elected to Congress, and his daughter and pet office girl are free to marry their respective tenors. Bide Dudley (dramatic critic of the N. Y. Evening World) and Louis Simon (actor...